“What I recognised in his work was a visceral and emotional connection between the subject, Hamish and the clay. It is this skill, his observational powers and his ability to give life to his sculpture that make Hamish Mackie’s work exceptional. (Nancy Minshull-Beech, Arts Curator)
Hamish has works in public and private collections around the world. His wildlife sculptures are cast in bronze or silver as limited editions, each signed, dated and numbered. Each sculpture takes on average four months to be sculpted, moulded and then cast into bronze using the lost wax method. It is a highly skilled, labour-intensive process. @hamish_mackie keep shining on!
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Most animals we encounter during the week are animals we see quite often. But sometimes we come across some that we almost never see. This happened the other day when we came across this Serval (Leptailurus serval). This small carnivore preys on rodents, small birds, small reptiles and amphibians which it will hunt by using his hearing and can leap up to 2 meters to catch his prey. He will deliver a blow to the animal and then kill it by biting either the head or the neck. After this, the prey is immediately swallowed.
They are solitary cats that will only meet up during mating season, after which they will go their own ways again. lostadventures.dk #travel#southafrica#gamereserve#adventure#wildlife#servalcat

5:30am wake-up to see these beauties having breakfast. Did you know that #giraffes have the exact same amount of neck vertebrae as humans? Just saying that perhaps we all generally have more in common than we think. I want my future children to be able to have this experience and not tell them stories of when, once upon a time, there was a world where so-called giraffes once existed. We all contribute to our future. In this case it’s to #protectwildlife ✨

Crested tits are quite unique among British birds. Unlike their European brethren who are content with any sort of coniferous woodland, the British birds are confined to Scotland, and even then to mostly to Abernethy forest. I’ve heard it said that if we get vagrant birds in England, they’re almost 100% European birds because the Scottish population does not move much at all. So, to catch and ring about a dozen personally in Denmark in late summer 2018 was a privilege that I wouldn’t experience in England. On some days they were the most abundant of the titmice we caught. Still with the same ‘chickadee’ attitude, they are always a ‘pleasure?’ to handle. #paruscristatus#crestedtit#skagenbirdobservatory#wildlife#wildlifephotography#birds#birdringing#ringmærkning

The Wild Life” is a new collection of risograph prints we have produced in collaboration with five artists; The collection called on these artists to embrace their inner animal, and design a piece that would challenge and embrace the quirks and aesthetics of the risograph.
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This next print is by illustrator @cathalduane called“Tiger Print” Cathal is an Irish illustrator currently in Cork, soon to be based in France. Cathal's work is inspired by strange thoughts, weird connections and cosmic oddities. He uses dynamic compositions and figurative shapes to construct narratives in images that constantly reinvent and surprise.
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Get this at the in-store or online on our website 🌿
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